Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Last week in the middle of another commercial film and television shoot on Tiger Beach we celebrated the arrival of Denny, a little Tiger shark we had come to know and love this spring in the Bahamas.

The celebration lasted until we saw the close up images that Greg "Moondog" Mooney surfaced with.

Sadly it looks like little Denny (all three feet of him) had been chomped on by another resident Tiger, crushing his dorsal fin and leaving behind several healing puncture wounds. Additionally he survived a fisherman's hooking event recently.

If you click on this image you see the hook and line in the corner of his mouth.

The good news is that sharks are very resilient critters and if he can stay out of any more trouble little Denny might just get big enough one day to hold his own at Tiger Beach.

Life can be tough for sharks in the wild and we'll continue to follow Denny's progress and update you as he grows up, right now he's a cute little guy who's always showing up in the thick of things not quite sure where he belongs.

Thanks to Greg Mooney for the shot and Fraizer Nivens for the image highlighting.

The president of Palau and the president of Honduras tomorrow are to
announce the launch of a global shark conservation coalition.

Johnson
Toribiong, president of Palau, and Porfirio Lobo Sosa, president of
Honduras, are to be joined by leaders from other countries to sign a new
declaration committing to the development of sanctuaries, which end
commercial shark fishing in their national waters, the release states.

The
signing is to take place at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel in New York
City, the release states. Matt Rand, director of global shark
conservation of the Pew Environment Group, is also to be at the signing.

The Pew Environment Group is the conservation arm of The
Pew Charitable Trusts, which is a non-governmental organization that
works globally to establish pragmatic, science-based policies that
protect the world’s oceans, preserve wildlands and promote clean energy,
the release states.

Two years ago, no country had declared
all of its waters as a sanctuary for these creatures. Today, more than
2.7 million square kilometers have been set aside, more than the area of
Mexico and Texas combined, according to the release.

Kudos to Canada and The Marine Stewardship Council for exploring sustainable shark fisheries. It's an anathema to many within the shark conservation movement to even consider sustainable shark fishing.